STATISTICS

In focus

DGFF 2016 - Target 17.5: Investment promotion for LDCs

In developing countries, especially in LDCs and other vulnerable economies, public finances are central to investment in the Sustainable Development Goals. However, they cannot meet all Sustainable Development Goal-implied resource demands. The role of private sector investment will be indispensable.

Statistical capacity building

UNCTAD assists national statistical agencies in developing and transition countries in their data collection and dissemination efforts. In cooperation with UN agencies, development banks and other international organisations, such as Eurostat. UNCTAD coordinates technical cooperation activities with donors and other organisations to avoid duplication of work and to encourage complementarity and synergy. For this purpose UNCTAD contributes to the Partner Report on Support to Statistics (PRESS) maintained by Paris21, which provides a snapshot of support to statistical capacity development worldwide and, thus, is a valuable tool for collaboration building among statistical international organisations.

Latest statistical publications

Explore UNCTAD statistics in our data centre, compare key indicators from countries all over the world in our Country Profiles and discover a selection of key facts in our infrographic library.

Latest key facts

Estimates for 2015 indicate that, for the first time on UNCTAD's record, world seaborne trade volumes exceeded 10 billion tons. Developing countries accounted for the lion's share of both goods loaded (60%) and unloaded (62%) at seaports worldwide. The intra-trade is the trade between members of the same group.

In 2015, the intratrade of developing and developed economies declined by 14 and 11 per cent respectively, while that of transition economies tumbled by 31 per cent.

According to the estimates, China has reached the levels of services imports of the United States, the traditional leader in world services imports and exports. From now, besides total services, UNCTAD publishes quarterly statistics on the main services categories as well.

News

Effective new policies that create jobs, improve wellbeing and drive social development will depend on reliable, timely and impartial statistics, the head of UNCTAD's statistics and information branch said in a statement marking World Statistics Day.